Yeah, always worth bearing in mind that the original pilgrims were such insufferably uptight Protestants, the English said, “Come on, fuck off then, you lot are miserable to have around,” in the decades leading up to Parliament starting to pass laws banning Christmas in 1644, and Oliver Cromwell taking over rule of the country a decade later. Really says something about them.
They also revere Columbus, and call white Christians “real Americans.”
Mexicans are real Americans. White people in America are immigrants.
And, the first settlers moved here because they were such religious extremists that no one wanted them around.
Yeah, always worth bearing in mind that the original pilgrims were such insufferably uptight Protestants, the English said, “Come on, fuck off then, you lot are miserable to have around,” in the decades leading up to Parliament starting to pass laws banning Christmas in 1644, and Oliver Cromwell taking over rule of the country a decade later. Really says something about them.
People forget the Puritans, and how insufferable they were. Like modern evangelicals, sorry, Christofascists.